Dr. Michael Joyner alleges the Mayo Institute tried to muzzle his public speech in his area of expertise
Supporting Hamas butchery of Israeli civilians is beyond the pale
An unusual move in an unusual impeachment
A member of Congress weighs in, and the university president speaks out
An Israeli minister demands that Princeton University prohibit a professor from assigning a controversial book
A response to Porter v. North Carolina State University
A new statement worth reading for those concerned with academia
State tries to bar Stanford researchers from testifying against it
Professor suspended for criticizing policies of Texas lieutenant governor
Is "intramural" professorial speech protected by the First Amendment?
Doctor sanctioned for comments to journalists about transgender athletes
How bad is that divisive concepts bill?
Legislative showdown looming on tenure and academic freedom
North Dakota attack on tenure barely defeated
Observing Israel (and the United States) through the lens of political science
A poorly drafted and conceptually ambitious upending of norms of state university independence
Some of the proposals pose real threats to free inquiry
Should conservatives worry about breaking the norm of political non-interference with state universities?
The Florida governor unveiled some big new ideas -- not all of them good
Legislative restrictions on ideas and viewpoints that can be advocated in the classroom undermine free inquiry
In email to campus Hamline University president reemphasizes that academic freedom does not exist there
Art history professor fired for showing class a famous Persian art work depicting the Prophet Muhammad
It is not a workplace "disruption" that co-workers objected to a MAGA hat
District court's opinion in Gruber v. Bruce shows problem with how Pickering balancing is done
My new paper on the First Amendment, Pickering balancing, and extramural speech
New article in symposium on the law and politics of impeachment now available
Organic chemistry professor fired because students at NYU thought the grades were too harsh
The University of Idaho's guidance to faculty on classroom discussion makes plain a First Amendment problem
Guidance given to faculty about effects of state abortion law raises troubling academic freedom questions
To defend the Stop WOKE Act, Florida asks court to eliminate any academic freedom exception to government employee speech doctrine
A conversation with the outgoing president of Purdue University and former Republican governor of Indiana.
The first government official has been removed by judicial order for participating in the January 6th "insurrection"
Diversity statements have become common in university admissions and hiring, and that's a problem
The court declares that legislators elected in gerrymandered districts cannot fully exercise the powers of their office
An interesting new addition to the flurry of lawsuits over the First Amendment implications of social media
A comprehensive catalog of every case in which the Court considered a constitutional challenge to an act of Congress
Over 150 new edited documents in the 2022 update to Gillman, Graber, and Whittington's American Constitutionalism
A conversation with Eugene Volokh about the Shapiro controversy and political statements by university leaders
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